Grid Infrastructure is Oracle’s platform for running Oracle 11g and 12c databases (single instance or RAC) and other services (e.g. Apache web servers) in a highly available, fault tolerant, manner. It includes facilities for shared storage (ASM, ASM Clustered File System/ACFS, Cloud FS) and network name and address management that underpin the capability to keep databases, application servers, and third party products running and available at all times.

Database Administrators and OS System Administrators will find this class and Grid Infrastructure essential for running Oracle Databases.

Grid Infrastructure is a required prerequisite installation for all Oracle 12c RAC and ASM installations. It is also required for the Oracle Restart facility.

Grid Infrastructure is the way Oracle is moving, for all databases and application servers. (Have we convinced you that you should learn GI?)

Oracle Certified Master John Watson will teach you how to install and use Grid Infrastructure to manage Oracle Databases. John will also demonstrate that Grid Infrastructure is not necessarily complicated and can indeed make your life simpler. You will however also learn that exploiting its capabilities to the full can give fantastic levels of performance and fault tolerance, at a far lower cost than any competing products.

Grid Infrastructure is Oracle’s platform for running Oracle 11g and 12c databases (single instance or RAC) and other services (e.g. Apache web servers) in a highly available, fault tolerant, manner. It includes facilities for shared storage (ASM, ASM Clustered File System/ACFS, Cloud FS) and network name and address management that underpin the capability to keep databases, application servers, and third party products running and available at all times.

Grid Infrastructure is a required prerequisite installation for all Oracle 12c RAC and ASM installations. It is also required for the Oracle Restart facility. Grid Infrastructure is the way Oracle is moving, for all databases and application servers. (Have we convinced you that you should learn GI?)

Oracle Certified Master John Watson will teach you how to install and use Grid Infrastructure to manage Oracle Databases. John will also demonstrate that Grid Infrastructure is not necessarily complicated and can indeed make your life simpler. You will however also learn that exploiting its capabilities to the full can give fantastic levels of performance and fault tolerance, at a far lower cost than any competing products.

1. Grid Infrastructure Concepts

What is a Cluster

Grid Foundation Components

Oracle Clusterware Architecture

Oracle Clusterware Software and Storage

Describe ASM Architecture

ASM Disk Groups

ASM Cluster File systems

2. Grid Infrastructure Installation and Configuration

Hardware Requirements and Configuration

OS Requirements and Prerequisites

Storage Options

Network Requirements

The cluster interconnect

GNS, DNS and DHCP Configuration

Grid Plug and Play Considerations

The Grid Naming Service

Single Client Access Names

3. The Database Listener Model

The SCAN listeners and the node listeners

Database session connect time fault tolerance

Session load balancing

Runtime load balancing and fault tolerance

4. Administering Oracle Clusterware

Adding, Deleting, or Migrating Voting Disks

The Oracle Cluster Registry (OCR)

OCR Mirroring and Backups

The Oracle Local Registry

Migrating voting file and OCR to ASM

Managing Network Settings

5. Managing cluster resources

Stopping, starting, and relocating resources

Registering third party applications

Configuring dependencies between resources

Writing event handler scripts

6. Managing an Oracle Cluster

Extending a Cluster

Rolling Patches, And Rolling Upgrades

Removing a Node

7. Oracle Clusterware High Availability

Oracle Clusterware high availability components

Contrasting policy-managed and administration managed databases

Server pool functionality

The Generic and Free Server Pools

Application placement policies

Application Virtual IPs

Managing application resources

8. Troubleshooting Oracle Clusterware

Oracle Clusterware Log Files

Gathering Log Files Using diagcollection.pl

Resource Debugging

Component-level Debugging

Troubleshooting the Oracle Cluster Registry

9. Flex Clusters

Hub and leaf nodes

Implement flex ASM

Convert from standard cluster to flex cluster

Set a node’s role and the hub node cardinality

Use server pools to provide HA for database instances and application servers